but there is nothing wrong with what the judge said in his ruling.
Why must everything be judged through the lenses of sexism? Give me a break.
In his ruling, Judge Cunningham said that "the defence was able to demonstrate that there were a number of rather significant things going on in her life when she gave her statement to the police. … "
"She was commuting regularly to Toronto for her work, leaving her husband and child in Ottawa," he read in his ruling. He concluded that her evidence was not corroborative of the Crown's main witness and said, "I must assign it little weight."
Look at the last sentence of the paragraph, that his the main thrust of the judge's argument in dismissing MPP Lisa MacLeod's testimony.
Now maybe the judge his a sexist prick, and maybe if we look at past judgments we can see a pattern, but this judgment is not sexist. Gender had nothing to do with. Nothing is substantially changed by switching the gender in his text.
In his ruling, Judge Cunningham said that "the defence was able to demonstrate that there were a number of rather significant things going on in his life when he gave his statement to the police. … "
"He was commuting regularly to Toronto for his work, leaving his wife and child in Ottawa," he read in his ruling.
It is pure speculation to say the judge wouldn't have said such a thing if it wasn't Lisa MacLeod, rather it was Luc MacLeod.
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Ah, but have you ever heard a judge make a similar remark to Luc? It's always the female of the species who is assumed to be so occupied with family as to be unreliable about the 'real' world.
It's been my experience that if you want to get something done ask the busiest person you know. The judge's ruling was ridiculous and Ipm sorry....very sexist. This from someone who abhors crazed feminists like I do. No judge in their right mind would conclude that a man was unable to think straight because he had to commute everyday.
Frances, tbh, I don't know. I am also too lazy to search every judgment out there. I suppose if it was so sexist, and out of line the Crown can appeal the verdict on account of a judge being sexist and therefor biased?
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